UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Malta

This article first appeared in My Travelogue by Bhushavali

Malta is a tiny little country that's half the size of Singapore, but it has 3 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in it! But as I mentioned in the last post about Belgian sites, here too the 3 are scattered across 9 places! When I was in Malta, I managed to visit 4 of these 9 places. Anyways technically, I'VE BEEN TO ALL 3 UNESCO SITES OF MALTA.

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1. City of Valletta: Like other whole cities listed under UNESCO like Historic City of Ahmedabad in India, Old & New towns of Edinburgh in Scotland, Historic City centre of Brugge in Belgium, here to the whole City of Valletta is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The city was found in 1566 and built with the best of Renaissance style with a grid plan and fortress! Complete with St.John's Co-Cathedral, The Malta Experience, Knight's Hospitallers, National Archaeological Museum and more, it requires an entire day to just walk-around & experience the city.

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2. Hal Safleni Hypogeum: The most challenging site to visit, to get a ticket! Only 80 people are allowed in per day, so the online tickets get sold out like 2-3 months in advance! I was lucky enough to get the chance to enter this 'hypogeum', which literally means 'underground chamber'! This was occupied by humans 5000 years ago. I mean - Malta is a tiny little island located atleast 100km from the nearest mainland (Italy) and it has been in occupation since much earlier and this particular site - Hal Safleni Hypogeum was used a burial site since 3300 BCE!! Do you realize??? - our forefathers were ocean voyagers since thaaaaaaat long ago!!! Its all protected intact with frescoes & sculptures, till-date for us to see. Just book the ticket, the minute after you book your flights to Malta.

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3. Megalithic Temples of Malta (7 places): This is spread across 7 places - 5 in main island of Malta and 2 in Ggantija, Gozo. Infact, 1 is located very close to Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum, called Tarxien, but unfortunately I didn't get to visit it! 2 are located close to each other, near Blue Grotto and we did visit them - Mnajdra and Ħaġar Qim. These are actual places of worship built between 4000-3000 BCE. They are few of the earliest ever free-standing buildings worldwide! Complete with life-sized to minature human sculptures and elaborate decorational reliefs and engravings, set in perfect geographic location with streamlined floor-plan, its unbelievable that they were made it 6000yrs ago!
In the tentative list are the Knights'& Victoria Lines Fortification walls, M'dina, Catacombs (like the one in Rabat), Coastal Cliffs and a couple more!

UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Malta

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